Wilco's Jeff Tweedy's is Getting Help in the Battle Against His Wife's Cancer

When Miller Tweedy, Jeff Tweedy's wife was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in April, she underwent months of chemo to battle the disease. The cost of cancer treatment is high and the families and staff at the Near North Montessori School in Chicago, wanted to help. Jeff and Miller's sons both graduated from the school and during their time there, Jeff put on several concerts to help support it. An opportunity to pay some of the Tweedy's generosity back was too perfect to pass up.

Audrey Perrott, the school's executive director, told DNAinfo Chicago, "We consider them to still be part of our community, and now it is our turn to give back to them."

Perrott and dozens of parents from the school have raised thousands of dollars to support Susan Miller Tweedy's "Light the Night" team, which is participating in a fundraising walk next month for raise money for research by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

While Miller's prognosis is good as far as the lymphoma goes, she is currently waiting for results from a bone scan to see if the chest cancer she beat 22 years ago, has come back.

Sukierae, the upcoming album from Tweedy, was inspired by Jeff's attempts to come to grips with Miller's illness in a positive way. When he talked to Rolling Stone earlier this month, he shared that Sukierae is Miller's nickname.

Spencer Tweedy, who put off going to Wisconsin's Lawrence University for a year in order to be there with his family, said, "Mom is kind of the center of everything. I have no problem enshrining my mother in an album. It makes sense. She's number one in the whole operation."

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